Gian Davis' light was extinguished, but his friends lit candles Friday in his memory near the spot where he took his last breath.

"(We) just wanted to let him know that we love him up there, and we're all here for him even though he had to go horribly," said friend Alyssa Malm.

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Dozens of Davis' closest friends gathered and shed tears on Boynton Beach Boulevard, near the apartment complex where deputies said the 15-year-old was accidentally shot and killed Tuesday.

"The way people judged him wasn't right," Malm said.

Deputies said Davis and some of his friends were riding a stolen BMW Tuesday morning, on a mission to commit robberies. While they waited to make their move, a friend in backseat was playing with a gun that accidentally went off and killed the teen, investigators said.